Washcloth knitting has gone very well in the second quarter of 2012. I already posted about the
April washcloth, and here is the one I finished in May:
This pattern is "chevron rib" and is featured on April 27 in my pattern-a-day calendar. This washcloth took the longest of any this quarter because it was a long time before I could "read" the knitting in this pattern. For most of the time I was blindly following the written instructions, but finally I got to the point where I could tell what to do based on the previous row of knitting. I'm not sure what made this pattern like that, perhaps that I was doing only one repeat, perhaps the narrowness of the ribs. Anyhow, finally finished.
Next is the extra dishcloth for this quarter, knit in May and a little bit of June. Again falling back on the Ballband Dishcloth standard, this time with yellow bricks and pastel rainbow mortar. Whenever Lil One suddenly wants to "help knit" I'll quickly cast on one of these for her to watch a row or two.
Finally, the June washcloth. I knit this all in one day in early June, and will be turning it in to the
Harry Potter Knitting & Crochet House Cup as my homework for Flying class. The prompt for Flying this month was about "flying by the seat of your pants" and crafting something such that you didn't know what the finished product would look like during the crafting (or making pants). I decided to try my hand at making a randomized pattern, so I quickly set a few rules and dove right in. I started reading the first Harry Potter book, and every time I came to a proper noun I'd make a two-stitch cable. For people names it would be right-leaning and for place names left-leaning. I kept a three-stitch and three-row garter border, and cabled on both sides of the knitting. This washcloth represents most of the first chapter. If I were to do it again, I think I'd cable one way for first names and the other for last names, dropping the place names because there weren't many of them.
This process made for slow reading but very fast knitting, and what I think will be a very scrubby washcloth.
